Abortion rate increases during Bush administration

From a recent online article in The Baptist Standard, "Glen Stassen, a trained statistician and ethics professor at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif." has reported that although the abortion rate fail to a 24-year low during the Clinton White House years, it has begun to increase again during the Bush administration. Stassen calculates that "'52,000 more abortions occurred in the United States in 2002 than would have been expected' had the abortion-rate decrease of the 1990s continued." Stassen argues that the most likely reason for the increase has been economic conditions. He reports that the two most often listed reasons for young women having an abortion was either because they were not in a good financial situation to raise a child, or because they did not have a reliable partner.

Stassen believes that in order to insure the continuing decline of the abortion rate in the United States, prospective mothers must be assured of sound economic conditions, good health care, health insurance, jobs and a living wage, and emotional support. He argues that voters who are concerned about being pro-life advocates "should look at more issues in the election than which politician opposes legal abortion. 'Economic policy and abortion are not separate issues; they form one moral imperative... Rhetoric is hollow, mere tinkling brass, without health care, health insurance, jobs, child care and a living wage.'"

Just one more reason that the Bush economic plan as been an abject failure. VOTE tomorrow for a change. VOTE FOR JOHN KERRY!